Snowden (2016)
The only safe place is on the run.
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Snowden rating: IMDb, Rotten Tomatoes and Metacritic
IMDb7.3/10· 169K votes
Rotten Tomatoes61%
Metacritic58%
TMDb7.112/10· 5K votesWith 61% on Rotten Tomatoes, backed by 7.3/10 on IMDb and 58/100 on Metacritic, critical reception of this film has been mixed.
About Snowden
CIA employee Edward Snowden leaks thousands of classified documents to the press.
Cast of Snowden
Joseph Gordon-Levitt
as Edward Snowden
Shailene Woodley
as Lindsay Mills
Melissa Leo
as Laura Poitras
Zachary Quinto
as Glenn Greenwald
Tom Wilkinson
as Ewen MacAskill
Scott Eastwood
as Trevor James
Timothy Olyphant
as CIA Agent Geneva
Ben Schnetzer
as Gabriel Sol
LaKeith Stanfield
as Patrick Haynes
Rhys Ifans
as Corbin O'Brian
Nicolas Cage
as Hank Forrester
Joely Richardson
as Janine Gibson
Snowden facts
- Budget
- $40M
- Box office
- $37.4M
Ranked by the iRankMovies editorial teamUpdated August 2026MethodologyData sources
Audience opinions
What the audience liked
- •True story provides intrigue about mass surveillance systems impact
- •Idealism theme resonates with modern investigative journalism questions
- •Oliver Stone crafts engaging biographical drama with technical details
What the audience disliked
- •Heavy-handed approach to complex political material feels didactic
- •Narrative pacing occasionally bogs down in exposition and speeches
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